The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-30
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| Tor the manufacture OF sugar.
At Oxford, p, the other day, sparrow
hoped upon q pile OF clans and was studded
ly imprisoned by one Of the bIvalves, which
closed It's shell together over the birds foot.
A resident Of Marietta, O., Is said to have
sold his daughter for $50, and taken half Of
his pay In hard cider. 1t is supposed he sub
sequently treated himself to long and beastly
drunk.
Four Of the Eve men who applied for mar
ragc licenses at Chattanooga, Tenn, one day
last week, were unable to correctly write their
names, and had to make their mark upon the
recordbook.
Although 90 years old, William Gamble, Of
East New Brunswick, N. j., recently drove
thirty miles In = wagon in ono trip without
fatigue. He has 81 grandchildren and 1Oi
great-grandchdrcn
A Young lady In New York, who was mat
tentive at whist has broken of her engage.
ment with her lover because he recommended
and fix 1t on the game.
On the tombstone of Martha Annie Moore,
whose grave is In Old Wilmer, Ga, is this GU
rious epltaph "Boys, don't shoot birds around
Marthas grave" The grave is in Wild wood
where game is plenty.
A new college course in scientific temper
ancen has been added to the curriculum OF
the Grant Memorial university at Athens,
Tenn. 1t is the first Of the kind in any
collegiate institution In the world.
A three thousand-ioot well is being sunk at
San Diego, Cal. 1t is hoped that = supply OF
water equivalent to two million gallons In ev'
cry twenty-four hours will be obtained from
that and another deep well now being sunk.
A Roman Catholic priest at Wllkesbarre,
Pa, on Thursday returned to Mrs Susan
O'Nelll, of that city, her gold watch, which
was stolen fifteen years ago The seal OF the
confessional, of course, bars all inquiry or ex-
PLANTATION effectually.
The war sword OF the celebrated raider, Gen.
John Morgan, is on exhibition at the g. A. X
fair at Wellsvllle, o. The sword was stolen
at the time of MorgaD's capture, when he was
in the hotel at that place, aud is now the prop
erty OF II. II. Whtacre.
Twenty-Five natives Of Guadalupe guard
their collegiate church and the sacred image
OF the Virgin day and night They do not
propose that the image shall be removed for
short time, even while the interior repairs OF
the church are In progress
Russian literature is the prevailing craze In
Boston. Last winter Browning and Shelley
were the idols Of the cultured bean-eaters, but
now everything that has the mark Of Stepnak,
Tolstoi, and Gogoi stamped upon 1t Is given
the place of honor In the parlors.
A woman OF Jersey City N. j., recently
brought home strange egg as the souvenir
of trip and placed It on the parlor table
One week after she was surprised to see lit
tie turtle break the shell Of the egg and slowly
crawl out. The heat Of the room had Matched
II.
Three girls Of Aroostook, Me-, walked from
Ashland to Portage lake. lowed across the
lake, ate their dinners, and returned to Ash
land In the afternoon, having Travelled eight
cen miles. The same girls can travel on snow
Shoes ride horses, milk, teach school, and
play the piano
A man who had undergone seven days Inn
prisonmcnt at Leicester, Eng, for refusing to
allow his child to be vacclnated was greeted
with cheers BY an assemblage Of over thous-
and people on his release. characterization
resolutions were passed, and the authorities
denounced for sending him to jail.
In an Albany clearinghouse a number Of
ladies for over two years sat together at one
dining table. During that time nine persons
residing In the vicinity died. One of the ladies
At the table spoke Of the matter few days
ago, and remarked: 81 wonder who will be
the tenth ." Within 4 week she herself was
number ten.
According to The Paris Morning Neos,
there is to be a test of the devotion OF Poiller-
at, the shoemaker and socialist orator, TO the
principles he has profcsscd. That paper says
that his fellow socialists are about to call
meeting to determine what shall be done with
a legacy of s., 200 900 bequathed to Poillerat
by brother who died 10 America.
The word ventrlloquism In large letters on
poster which was pasted on tree, met the
eyes of non. prohibltionlst at Americas the
other day, and, says the veracious chronlcler,
he spent five hours In weary tramp around
the tree endeavorlng TO declpher 1t, he never
having seen the word before. He was found
PROSTATE at the foot OF the tree, thoroughly
exhausted.
Two and a half years ago family In
Plymouth gave away their pet cat She
wouldn't stay In her new home and disappear
ed The other day the children Of her old
mistress found her three miles from town and
carried her home, where, at their bidding, she
did the tricks that they had taught her three
years ago. She seemed delighted to get back,
and purred steadily for six hours.
Near East Sullivan, Me-, recently, an old
farmer set a spring gun for bear that had
been making too many visits to bis chicken
coops and plg-pens, and the next morning he
found brun badly wounded The old man